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THANE: Amid concerns over pollution levels in Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers, industries from Badlapur MIDC have come together to mitigate the situation. The industrialists who treats effluents to CETP plant, before MIDC releasing into either Ulhas or Waldhuni rivers, have installed an additional new technology called DAF (Dissolved Air Floatation) in their CETP plant.Through this DAF technology, oils and...

Thane: The Thane court has acquitted four persons, including a mother and her two sons, who were accused of dacoity and murder of a senior citizen in 2015 in Vashi. Sessions judge AN Sirsikar acquitted Himmatsingh Kalani, 41, Gujratsingh Kalani, 45, Sanjeevan Gamre, 31, and Surajkaur Kalani, 68. The Kalanis are residents of Nashik, the lawyer informed.The prosecutor told the court that on January 10,...

THANE: While the Thane police have started investigating the alleged assault on a Shiv Sena UBT activist, Roshani Shinde Pawar, following permission from the Thane magistrate court, the state women's commission on Thursday issued a notice to the Thane police and asked the Thane police chief to remain present before it on April 11 with its report. The commission, chaired by Rupali Chakankar, said it was...

THANE: The kasarwadavali police has registered a Non-Cognizable offence in the alleged Roshni Shinde assault case and mentioned two ‘unidentified’ women as the opponents. After a huge Morcha was taken out by the Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray and the alias of Maha Vikas Aghadi against the incident, only after that Thane police swung into action. Had the police taken swift action earlier, the situation...

THANE: A 100-year-old woman was rescued after the slab of a ground-plus-one residential structure collapsed on Thursday afternoon in Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said. The incident took place at 1:10pm in Rana Nivas in Padlekar Wadi, Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant told PTI."There are four rooms each on the ground floor and...

THANE: As many as five new check dams will be constructed along with repairing an existing one on the Yeoor natural nullah to tap rain water and divert it to Thane households, Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik said Wednesday.It is learnt that rain water conservation of this magnitude is one of its kind to be implemented within any city in the metropolitan region.The dams will retain several million litres of...

THANE: The Shiv Sena's (Eknath Shinde faction) youth wing on Tuesday filed an FIR against a rapper in Ambernath of Thane district for allegedly using objectionable and abusive remarks against the ruling Shiv Sena (Shinde) and BJP in the state.The FIR was filed by Snehal Kamble, a member of the Yuva Sena core committee at Shivaji Nagar police station.Raj Mungase, is a resident of Chhatrapati Sambhaji...

THANE: A 34-year-old man who brutally murdered his brother in 2018 and chopped his body into pieces was convicted by a court in Maharashtra on Wednesday and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Thane district and sessions court judge Rachna Tehra also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the convict, Simon Patrav.The judge noted that the prosecution has proved all the charges against the accused and he needs to...

KALYAN: The police have arrested one out of the two employees who stole Rs 45 lakh cash given by a jeweller to deposit in a bank in Kalyan. The main accused fled to Rajasthan from where police have arrested his associate involved in the crime, while the former is still at large. The arrested accused has been identified as Jagdish Devashi. The duo worked at the Shanklesha jwellery shop situated in Kalyan...

THANE: A fresh political slugfest began in the state after Uddhav Thackeray alleged that a 35-year-old woman activist of Shiv Sena (UBT) was assaulted by over 20 supporters of CM Eknath Shinde, including former corporators, Monday evening for putting up an "objectionable" post on social media against Shinde.The CM-led Shiv Sena denied the attack and said their activists had only "peacefully advised" her...